Ophthalmic mounting



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J. W. WELSH 'oPHTHALuIC MOUNTING Filed Aug. 24, 1925 Patented Aug. 28, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES WILSON WELSH, OF` PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO BAUSCH AND LOMB OPTICAL COMPANY, 0F ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

OPHTHALMIC MOUNTING.

Application led August 24, 1925. Serial No. 52,001.

The present invention relates to ophthalmic mountings, and more particularly to mountings of the all-shell type, constituted largely of non-metal material like zylonite, horn, and tortoise-shell.

The lens-holding fronts of mountings ot the above-described character are usually made of sheet stock. Temples are hinged to the end pieces of the lens-holding front. When the mounting is worn upon the face, with the temples in open position, and the rear ends of the temples bearing against the wearers skull, their forward ends exert pressure upon the end pieces of the lens-holding front, causing the front to curve at the bridge, and throwing the lens-holding rims put of alignment.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to improve upon ophthalmic mountings of the above-described character, to the end that the lens-holding rims may remain in substantial alignment when the mounting is worn upon the face.

lith this object in View, a feature of the invention resides in providing the bridge with a bend opposite in direction to the bend imparted thereto by the open temples, the two bends thus neutralizing each other and resulting in the lens-holding rims being in alignment when the mounting is in use.

Other and further el ject. will be explained in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. l is a front eievation of a sheet of stock intended to be inu,iiutact'ijired into a lens-bottling lfroi'it in accordance with the present invention; Fig. :2 is a plan of the same; Fig. i3 is a plan ot :in ophthalmic mounting const-muted according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; and Fig. 4 is a similar view, the parts being shown :in the position occupied by the mounting when the mountu ing in use upon the wearers tace.

The lens-holding-front blank Vshown lin lFigs. 1 and 2 is suitably prepared from a flat sheet of non-metal material so as to have the desired external contour of the lens-holding front. Before this blank is manufactured into finished form, the bridge 2 thereof is bent, as shown in Fig. The blank is then iinished in well known manner, so as to contain two lens-holding rims 4 and 6, each lying in its own plane, but the planes diverging from the bridge. Temples 8 are pivoted at their forward ends 9 to the end pieces 10 of the lensholding front by hinges l2. The end portions of the teniples and of the lens-holding frontto which they are pivoted are beveled, as shown at lit. Then the temples are swung about their pivots,V therefore, the beveled portions will be caused to abut, thereby limiting the outward movement ot' the temples. Any furn ther movement oi the temples, such as is caused by placing the temples behind the ears of the wearer, will cause the resilient material of the bridge 2 to bend in the opposite direction to the direction of bend originally imparted thereto, away from the temples, causing the lens-holding front to straighten out, as shown in Fig. t.. The mere engagement of the rear portions (not shown) oit the temples with the opposite sides of the weare1"s skull causes the lens holding front to be fiexed into a plane, so that the lenses are automatically properly positioned before the yes ot' the wearer.

The degree of bend shown in Fig. 3 may be from 3 to 120, or smaller or larger, as may be required by the circumstances ot' the case.

l\."lodiications will readily occur to persons skilled in the art and are considered to fall within the spirit and scope of the in venticn, as defined in the appended claims.

that is claimed is:

l. An ophthalmic mountii'ig comprising a lens-holding front and two teenililes. the lens-liolding front having two lens-heiding rims connected by a bridge and constituted ot a sheet et nonmetal matcrial.,y the nonlnetal material beingl bent at the bridge in a direction towards the tenmlcs, whereby the lens-holding rims lie substantially in planes diverging from the bridge towards the respective temples, the nonmetal material being resilient and being adapted to be tiered into substantially a plane by the engagement oit the temples with the skull ot a wearer.

1.2. An ophthalmic mounting comprising a resilient lens-holding front and two teur ples, the lens-holding 'liront having two lens-holding rims connected by a bridge, cach .lens-holding rim lying in substantially a plane, and the planes diverging from the bridge in directions towards the respective teniples, each temple having a forward por- `connected vby @bridge and constituted of n sheet of` resilient, non-,metal material, the nondnetalmateriel being bent at the bridge in a direction towards the temples, whereby the lens-l1olding rims lie substantially in planes divinging roln the bridge towards the respective temples, euch temple lim-'ing :i orwurdportion und :i renr portion, the rear portions being' udiljitedftoengugf'e "dpposite sides of 'n wenrers skull, the temples being ip iYoted to the lens-holding front :it tlieir frirird portions, und the pivotal nloxement of the temples being limited, whereby tlie ulens-holding.; front will be flexed into substantially n plaine ,by the engagement of tlie reni" portionsot tile temples with the oppositesides of the skull. A, i

In testimony lwhereof, lI have hereunto subscribed my nume.

JAMES W. 'wnL'sir 

